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excepting the Unitarians. This toleration promoted the growth of the colony, and persecuted people found a refuge there. Armed with this charter, young Lord Baltimore set about the business of colonizing his domain. He The Landing on Blackstone Island. appointed his half-brother, Leonard Calvert (q. v.), governor, and Nov. 22, 1633, that kinsman and another brother, with very near twenty other gentlemen of very good fashion and 300 laboringmen (so Lord Baltimore wrote to Wentworth), sailthe latter were Protestants. After a terribly tempestuous voyage, in which the vessels were separated, they met at Barbadoes and finally entered the broad mouth of the Potomac River, in February, 1634. They sailed up the Potomac, and upon Blackstone Island (which they named St. Clement's) they landed, performed religious ceremonies, and were visited by the wondering natives. The governor made further explorations, and, finally, on March 27 (O. S.), Calvert, having entered into a treaty fo